Know What Is Inside Your Game: The Sims 3
Introduction and Part 1: Inside the Programs/Applications folders I will be putting together a few informative posts to help people understand their TS3 game better. It may take me a while, and I'm...
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Links to Superpatches and Store patches:
You will need to use a superpatch, once the servers are down, should you need to fresh install your game. These are official superpatches for 1.67, the latest update that includes information to prepare the game for a server shutdown:
Official links for Mac cumulative (superpatch) manual update, along with instructions:
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/549552/official-ea-download-links-for-the-sims-3-cumulative-manual-update
Official links for PC cumulative (superpatch) manual update, along with instructions:
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/175477/official-ea-download-link-for-the-sims-3-cumulative-manual-update
NOTE: Please do yourself a favor and download at least the final superpatches for both Mac and PC. No one knows what the future holds, and you want to be able to play your game on whatever hardware you eventually land on, at some point in the future. Besides, if you have the superpatches, you can always give them to someone else who forgot to get them, before they disappeared.
Oh, I should also mention that you will need to superpatch the base game, before you can install the other EP/Stuff Packs. I use superpatch 1.66 for that. Then I ignore all the warnings that the game patch level doesn't match the game you're installing and you will need to reinstall, later, etc. After I get done installing the last EP/Stuff Pack, then I superpatch with 1.67.
No doubt you could just use the 1.67 to superpatch the base game and then reinstall it again over top of the last EP/Stuff Pack you install. But I feel better doing it the other way. It feels like I am giving my game the final patch after the final installation. I can be silly, that way. ;)
The superpatch 1.66
At SimsVIP, PC superpatch:
http://simsvip.com/2014/01/14/sims-3-game-update-1-66-11413/
both PC and Mac:
At Crinrict's (links for the Mac at the bottom of the page)
http://sims3.crinrict.com/en/2014/01/patch-1-66.html
You will need to use a superpatch, once the servers are down, should you need to fresh install your game. These are official superpatches for 1.67, the latest update that includes information to prepare the game for a server shutdown:
Official links for Mac cumulative (superpatch) manual update, along with instructions:
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/549552/official-ea-download-links-for-the-sims-3-cumulative-manual-update
Official links for PC cumulative (superpatch) manual update, along with instructions:
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/175477/official-ea-download-link-for-the-sims-3-cumulative-manual-update
NOTE: Please do yourself a favor and download at least the final superpatches for both Mac and PC. No one knows what the future holds, and you want to be able to play your game on whatever hardware you eventually land on, at some point in the future. Besides, if you have the superpatches, you can always give them to someone else who forgot to get them, before they disappeared.
Oh, I should also mention that you will need to superpatch the base game, before you can install the other EP/Stuff Packs. I use superpatch 1.66 for that. Then I ignore all the warnings that the game patch level doesn't match the game you're installing and you will need to reinstall, later, etc. After I get done installing the last EP/Stuff Pack, then I superpatch with 1.67.
No doubt you could just use the 1.67 to superpatch the base game and then reinstall it again over top of the last EP/Stuff Pack you install. But I feel better doing it the other way. It feels like I am giving my game the final patch after the final installation. I can be silly, that way. ;)
The superpatch 1.66
At SimsVIP, PC superpatch:
http://simsvip.com/2014/01/14/sims-3-game-update-1-66-11413/
both PC and Mac:
At Crinrict's (links for the Mac at the bottom of the page)
http://sims3.crinrict.com/en/2014/01/patch-1-66.html
